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Museum Worlds is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Berghahn Journals.
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ISSN 2049-6729Verify ISSN ↗2049-6737Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museology | 22 / 96 | 77th | Q1 |
| Conservation | 36 / 108 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
Museum Worlds is Q1 in Museology (rank 22 of 96) and Q2 in Conservation (rank 36 of 108), by CiteScore 2025.
Museum Worlds is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.251, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
Museum Worlds is published by Berghahn Journals. Its print ISSN is 2049-6729 and its online ISSN is 2049-6737.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Museum Worlds has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 86 Scopus journals in Museology.
Museum Worlds published 25 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 33 research articles (2021–2023), authors are most often from United Kingdom (15%), New Zealand (14.5%) and Denmark (12.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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